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  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • screen memory — a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.
  • second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
  • seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
  • semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
  • semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • sensitometric — of or relating to sensitometry
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • simware, inc. — (company)   The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
  • snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
  • sociocentrism — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • the archenemy — the devil
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
  • trace element — any element that is required in minute quantities for physiological functioning.
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
  • transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
  • trauma center — a hospital or medical center equipped to treat victims of trauma.
  • trench mortar — a portable, muzzle-loaded mortar, usually having a smooth bore, fired at high angles of elevation to reach concealed enemy targets.
  • triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
  • truman capote — Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • unceremonious — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
  • unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
  • uncircumcised — not circumcised.
  • uncircumspect — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uncompromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • unconcernment — lack of concern; unconcern
  • unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
  • underclassman — a freshman or sophomore in a secondary school or college.
  • unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
  • unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
  • unreclaimable — not able to be reclaimed, reformed, or rescued from vice
  • unreclaimably — in an unreclaimable manner
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